RedRoo's Photos of Queensland Model and Hobby Expo 2014.

So, let the show begin. There was a show on American TV for many years called, "You Asked for it" and as there is a lot of interest in what I recorded with my camera, I now present what "You asked for".

This year, there were some amazing models at the QMHE comp and I tried to do justice to them all, but if some are a little blurred, I apologise.

This will be a trip by me, around a venue that offered so much to the modeller and the general public to be involved in.

I sure hope there will be enough room from the server guys !!!

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This says it all.

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This was at the first table and all photos from here on are in sequence, and I am sure you will recognise all the aircraft types and I hope you don't mind if I don't give a running commentary on each one.

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This was the quiet before the storm, 7.00am Saturday.

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Gundam has caught on here in Australia in a huge way and some of the adults have tackled this category with some gusto.

I was told by the folks manning the retail outlet in the hall that when Gundam was first introduced to the Japanese public, they were giving these models to all passengers on all the internal domestic flights within Japan !!!!! And the 1to1 scale of the main character stands 17Mtrs tall outside the factory where they are made

Now we are near the corner and the final 10 tables, then I will post some pics of the traders venues.

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This is the section I won with my Sauber and all the extra work under the hood.

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I made a small stand which looked like the pit area and cut the Name plaque from the instruction sheet , laminated it and attached it to the display

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My Pengali, I bought a plinth from an arts store, colouring it red and gold and it really accentuated the dukes red and gold trim

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The two Hondas were marked down, even though they had a better finish, because I didn't remove the seam on the tyre, even though I had put in my application/entry form that all slicks are like this before going on the track and that is how I want my model judged, as two bikes ready to race, not having been on the track before !!!

And the sojourne continues and I must warn the parents that there are some models here that are of the human form but with some skin showing and I will leave that up to the moderator and his judgement on wether they will remain for all to see.

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This stunned everyone when it appeared and quite rightly too.

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This catapault system was scratched built and later on I will post a pic from the other side and it will tickle you pink.

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My two instrument panels failed to even get a mention here and it was because the scrutineers didn't know what "Category" I fitted into, so in the end, I was in misselanious

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This got Gold, and rightly so as next to it was a car totally encrusted with real gold and precious stones. !!!

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This is the Rhinestone "T"

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Here I won gold with the rc166 on the stand and the clear NSR 500 got bronze and compared what surrounded them, it all came down to the included details and seam lines !!!

Sorry about all the breaks folks, but they do it more often on the telly

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These are the models on my clubs table, The Tweed Valley Scale Modelers Club, which was started some 25 years ago, by yours truly and it is still steaming ahead and you will see why when you see what we get into.

The last 3 or 4 were of a club display stand that dealt with mostly German WW1 and WW2 military. but I just had to ask the bloke who was in charge of it all if I could get some close ups of the models interior. and he said yes, so check this out.

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The breach section was amazing and he also told me he had actually created the rifling in the stubby barrel ! and it can be seen in the first photo of the front of the vehicle.

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This model eventually wone the best in show by the judging team and I agree because the total art work is airbrushed and no decals were used at all !!

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A wrecked car, note the coolant and the deployed air bags and bare metal. just wonderful.

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This had a lot going for it BUT, I hate "Orange peel effect" and this is a good case of what it is and it really brings a models believability down sadly.

I love the way children see the world and that really becomes obvious in some of the models presented this year, especially the Voodoo jet and the F-16 and the Fockwolf you will see here, and even though they didn't win a prize, they were given an award of encouragement anyway.

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This Voodoo was submitted in the Junior section and I think its awesome.

OK, now its just bedlam from here on in as I had walked around the venue about 20 times and I never saw the same thing twice, but you may well see double and it will be of the models that had been judged and had their RED spots awarded.

In years past, the Judges would mark the winners with different coloured dots, red, blue, and yellow for arguments sake, this denoting Gold, Silver Bronze and It created some issues with the organizers and competitors, so to solve that problem, RED was the colour for all winners and you can find out who got gold, silver or bronze at the award ceremony, and it was a roaring success.